server error

pill · August 10th, 2004, 08:11 AM

I've built a search facility for our intranet. When it's opened, the search
pane opens up down the left of the screen and tiles itself with the opener
window to fill the rest of the screen. As people click on the links in the
search pane, the pages are displayed in the opener window.

My problem is that many of the documents being searched are pdf's or xls' or
doc's and once one of these has been opened in the opener window the standard
window.opener.location syntax seems to cause the server to throw an error
(with no more information than the fact that it's that line of code which
causes the problem).

Can anyone explain why this is happening and perhapse supply a work around?

Cheers, Pete.

ChrisScott · August 12th, 2004, 10:36 AM

Hi Pete,

I think you lose window.opener.location, because the window is being replaced with a plugin - word / acrobat etc.

A possible way around it would be to replace the body of the opener with an iframe taking up the whole page...

Code:

function OpenLink(url){
    with(window.opener.document.body){
        style.margin = "0px";
        style.overflow = "hidden";
        innerHTML = "<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" id=\"myFrame\" src=\"" + url + "\"></iframe>";
    }
}

HTH,

Chris